A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems (Amit Singh)

 
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A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems (Amit Singh)

These documents cover a variety of operating systems that Apple has attempted to create as well as those that it has previously developed.

We will encounter a number of technologies throughout this lecture, the fusion of which ultimately produced Mac OS X. Understanding the motivations behind Mac OS X and its key components better is one of the discussion's major objectives.

They include numerous additional systems that were either direct or indirect inspirations, in addition to Mac OS X and its relevant forebears, as well as the various operating systems that Apple has experimented with since the company's founding.

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About the Authors
Operating systems researcher, programmer, and author Amit Singh. He oversees Google's Macintosh engineering team. Amit has worked on operating systems in the past at IBM Research, Bell Laboratories, and a Silicon Valley start-up that is engaged in cutting-edge virtualization research.
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PDF (146 pages, 3.3 MB)
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English

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